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• NL Hafta 610 Snippet : Democracy, With a Punchline: Why Those in Power Fear Satire

  October 10, 2026 · 16 min

  This week on Hafta, Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande and Anand Vardhan are joined by political cartoonist Manjul, Rachita Taneja of Sanitary Panels fame, and comedian Sanjay Rajoura to ask whether Indian politics has lost its sense of…

• NL Hafta 609 Snippet: ‘Is Judiciary the Greatest Threat to Indian Democracy?’

  October 3, 2026 · 14 min

  The Chief Justice of India’s remark that the polls in question were “only by-elections” in West Bengal is where this Hafta discussion begins. Abhinandan Sekhri calls it “a bit alarming”, and says similar casual comments have come up in…

• NL Hafta 608 Snippet :Ex-Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa Breaks Down the SIR Crisis

  September 26, 2026 · 14 min

  Former Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa challenges the framing of the Election Commission’s internal rift. Asked by Abhinandan Sekhri whether the “dissenting notes” amount to genuine dissent, Lavasa flips the premise, arguing that if two…

• Hafta 607: Who Pays For UPI? Is The UCC Even ‘Uniform’?

  September 19, 2026 · 1 hr 54 min

  This week on Hafta, Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande and Rinchen Norbu are joined by Anupam Manur, Professor of Economics at the Takshashila Institution, and Mihira Sood, Supreme Court lawyer specialising in women’s rights. The panel opens…

• NL Hafta 606 Snippet I Delhi’s Housing Crisis: Planning Failures and Unauthorised Construction

  September 12, 2026 · 15 min

  This week on Hafta, Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal and Anand Vardhan are joined by urban geographer and researcher Rashee Mehra to discuss Delhi's continuing housing crisis. Rashee traces the problem to a structural failure in planning…

• Hafta 605 Snippet : GDP Ka Khel: Decoding India’s 7.8% Quarterly Growth Claim

  September 5, 2026 · 9 min

  The discussion opens with Abhinandan Sekhri talking about the flood of commentary around India's quarterly GDP figures over the past two days.  Much of it, he says, is “just completely wrong” – although still a healthier public debate than…

• NL Hafta 604 Snippet: Student Suicides, Coaching Culture, and the Reservation Debate | Hafta Panel Discusses

  August 29, 2026 · 14 min

  This week’s Hafta panel tackled two connected threads: the anti-reservation protests and the suicide of an IIT Delhi student, Rishikesh Kumar.  Joining the Hafta panel this week were Dr Aqsa Shaikh, one of India’s first transgender doctors…

• NL Hafta 603 Snippet : BJP’s Gen Z ‘Outreach’ Problem | Hafta Panel Feat. Anurag Minus Verma

  August 22, 2026 · 12 min

  This week, the Hafta panel discussed the BJP’s push to expand its presence on Instagram, a shift Manisha Pande linked to the party being caught off guard by the memes and reels that emerged from the CJP protests. Anurag Minus Verma argued…